​When Columbia Banking System announced in July it would acquire Idaho-based Intermountain Community Bancorp in a transaction valued at $121.5 million, the deal boosted Columbia to $8.5 billion in assets with 150 branches in three states.

Fulton Financial Corp. and one of its subsidiaries, Lafayette Ambassador Bank, has been ordered to improve compliance deficiencies for anti-money laundering just two months after three other subsidiaries were ordered to do the same.

Yes, millennials like to bank via technology. But they also distrust big banks. Columbia Bank CEO Melanie Dressel has a solution that she believes will keep this next generation of customers coming back.